Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1887-09-07

tol. and pointing it at little Jimmy
said, I'll shoot you And sadly
enough he was as good as his word
The pistol went off, and the bullet
ploughed its way into the poor little
| fellows vitals. The ball entered the
abdomen and lodged in the liver,
He suffered greatly untile next morn
| ing. when kind death came to his re-
lief 1t is another warning to par
ents permitting their children to have
pistols. Courier
A new and novel method of raising
money for churches is most cheer
fully recommended to all congrega-
tions given to heroic exploits IN the
way of fairs, festivals, and allied de
vices for raising money. A box Is
placed in some convenient place, and
upon the birth day Of any member OF
! the church or Sunday school that
person puts in pennies correspond
ing to the number of years, and each
six months the box is opened and a
snug sum realized. If the church
has large congregation the amount
will be surprisingly large The boxes
are called birth day boxes and have
become very popular in many towns
where the scheme has been tried.
The Bloomfield advocate says--On
last Friday four colts belonging to
I'D. Clark Hays, of Blue Ball, ran into
barbed wire fence and one OF them
caught fast in the barbs and tore 1t
self so badly that its entrails protrud
ed, the sinews of its legs were also
cut off by the barbs, and some OF Its
ribs were almost severedi in its efforts
to extricate itself. 1t WAS 30 badly
injured that it had to be killed'-The
slToo were all valuable animals, and
Mr. Hays has sympathy of the entire
community.
An O'Neill, girl fell out of a second
story window to the ground and Ian
ded uninjured on her rubber hustle
with very hot hatirons untile dry
The hot penetrating steam is very
fatal, not only TO the insect it is es.
pecially intended for, but also to all
other vermin that may be lurking
under the carpet.
John Owens was in the woods near
Creston the other day and his dog
got into fight with another. He
went to part them and found black
snake coiled about his dogs neck and
the other suffering from the snakes
fangs. He blazcd away with his
gun and killed the snake.-Bloom
field Times.
The tallest man in the country is
said to be Henry A. Cooper of Lock
port, y. Y, who was born at York,
England. in 1860. He is eight feet
two inches in height, and weighs $50
pounds. His hand is 13 inches and
his foot IT inches long. He was
brought to this country for exhibi
ton.
While milking in barn of Abra-
ham Leman, in East Lampeter town
ship. this morning, a girl attempted
TO drive away a cat, when the animal
overturned the lamp, setting FIRE to the
structure and resultingin its destruc
ton. with five cows, three horses and
all the crops. Loss, $4,000; insured.
4 story comes from Nassau, y. P.
as related in the Ocean wave. that in
the stomach OF a shark recently
caught in the harbor there were found
n mans hand and wrist, a portion of
the mans shirt, a goats head with
horns nine inches long, and turtles
head.
In the City of Mexico everybody
lives over a shop, if the house. be two
stories, or uses the lower floor for
stabling the horses. quartering the
servants, etc Even the millionaires
often rent the ground floor of their
swell residences for business purpos-
es.
A horse belonging to George Lutz,
OF Springville, near Boiling Springs.
Cumberland county, was shot and
killed while grazing in a field the
other evening Mr.. Lutz attributes
1t to some boys who were practicing
with a revolver.
At Hagerstown, Md, couple are
reported to have been married in one
minute s time. They arrived on the
SIG train and were united by a cler-
gymau in waiting, who left on the
SIG train to continue a trip he had
been making.
July was a hot month in more
senses than one. Fire burnt up Sl4.
100000 worth of property from the
1st to the 31st-a distressing in
crease of about S4,OOO,OOO over fhe
loss in the corresponding period last
year.
W. Standley Day, of Spencer.
Tioga county, New York. killed him
self because his wife refused to oct
I1p at five o'clock to get breakfast.
He was about 35 years old and owned
a s12, 1000 farm.
Special complaint has been LODGED
against JohnChamberlain, of Berwick.
Columbia county, of erecting fish
dams on the North Branch of the Sus
quehanna River in defiance of the
law.
Mrs Belle Feely, an insane woman
confined in the Clarion county iaiI.
kindled fire in her cell with paper
torn from the walls and burned her
self to death.
An exchange says, a white grub
worm an inch and half long and as
thick ns lead pencil, is DESTROYING
the potato crop in some sections Of
this state
The rabbits are eating out the
ranchers in Steptoe Vally, White pine
county. New. At night thew come in
whole armies and dovour the growing
crops. o